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Poem by Walter Savage Landor


Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher


I strove with none, for none was worth my strife: 
         Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art: 
I warm’d both hands before the fire of Life; 
         It sinks; and I am ready to depart.



Walter Savage Landor


Walter Savage Landor's other poems:
  1. A Pastoral
  2. Twenty Years Hence My Eyes May Grow
  3. To Robert Browning
  4. Well I Remember How You Smiled
  5. The Gates of Fame and of the Grave


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